The Hard Task of Improving the Quality of Care at the End of Life
- 27 March 2000
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Internal Medicine
- Vol. 160 (6), 743-747
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.160.6.743
Abstract
RECENT DATA suggested that the current health care system is providing inadequate care for dying patients, and numerous organizations have called for improvemenThis publication has 53 references indexed in Scilit:
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